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Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about eclipses. The probe is designed to find out what students think causes a lunar eclipse....
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about weight and pressure. The probe is designed to determine whether students think their weight changes when the force exerted per unit area (pressure) on a scale changes....
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about magnetism. The probe is specifically designed to determine whether students believe air is necessary for magnets to work....
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about dissolving. The probe is designed to find out what students think happens to sugar when it dissolves in water....
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass, and systems. The concepts underlying this probe are complex. It is not important that students know ...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about biological adaptation. The probe is designed to find out if students think animals intentionally adapt to a change in their environment....
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about crystalline solids.The probe is specifically designed to determine how students think atoms are arranged and move in a crystalline lattice....
Journal Article
Scope on the Skies: Tracking the messenger
During April and May, the innermost planet, Mercury, will have its greatest apparition (morning or evening viewing opportunity) for the year as it graces the evening skies over the western horizon after sunset. Considering that Mercury, the fastest-o...
NSTA Press Book
Extreme Science: From Nano to Galactic
Whether we are imagining microbes or mammoths, dinosaurs or diatoms, molecules or stars, people of all ages are fascinated with the very large and the very small. New technologies have enabled scientists to investigate extremes of science previously ...
By M. Gail Jones, Amy R. Taylor, Michael R. Falvo